Although Inazu and Zick wrote their books before the Occupation [of Wall Street] emerged, their histories help to explain—and even to justify—the . . . movement’s extreme mode of assembly: an assembly that insists on peculiar decision-making procedures, engages in twenty-four-hour protest, and refuses to cooperate with government officials and their permitting regimes.

The New York TimesreviewsIn Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age (Scribner), by journalist Patricia Cohen. The book is "a lively, well-researched chronicle of the social and scientific forces that brought midlife America to its current befuddled state — better off by most measures than any previous generation, but miserably out of fashion."

Another review (paired with a nice screen shot of Bill Murray clutching a stuffed owl in Lost in Translation) is here, in the Wall Street Journal.